EDWARDSVILLE, Ill., Oct. 6 -- Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville issued the following news release:
When Howard Rambsy II, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor in Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Department of English Language and Literature, began working at the university in 2003, Earleen Patterson, PhD, Associate Vice Chancellor and director of Student Opportunities for Academic Results (SOAR), invited him to make a brief visit to a class for first-year African American men and offer a few suggestions. That brief visit turned into more than 20 years of teaching, listening to and learning from successive groups of students.
Those experiences are the subject of "The Convergence: When Collegiate Black Men Meet African ...